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A11769	The philosophers banquet Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes, that in the former service were neglected. Where now not only meats and drinks of all natures and kinds are serued in, but the natures and kinds of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effects and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. Newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.; Mensa philosophica. English.	Scot, Michael, ca. 1175-ca. 1234, attributed name.; Anguilbertus, Theobaldus, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 22063; ESTC S100623	106,565	400

against the other and more earthly dry and hard then Liguaments but not so much as the Bones 4. Fourthly the sinewes are a tough substance proceeding from the braine or marrow of the back-bone and give sense and motion which the former doe not being altogether insensible 5. The office of the Pannicles which are little skinnes made of sinues and liguaments are to defend and keepe together the members and to impart to many of them sense as to the Heart Liver Braine Lungs Splene and Kidneys 6. The Filiaments serve to draw nourishment being as it were slender threeds and some to retaine the same and expell what is superfluous 7. The veines are thinne and slender pipes carrying the thicker blood into all the parts and members of the body and have their beginning of the Liver 8. The Arteries are Pipes of thick and strong skinne which carry the vitall spirit throughout all the body and proceed from the heart they are also called Pulses The Veines and Arteries are joyned together to the intent the Arteries might receive Nourishment from the blood and the blood in the veynes warmth from the vitall spirits in the Arteries 9. The Flesh is a substance made of thicke blood congealed and is as it were the cloathing of the body And so these are the parts divisions and offices of the members belonging to the body of Man framed by the wonderfull composition and providence of God A comparisen of Mans age to the foure seasons of the yeere 1. First his Infancy is compared to the Spring because it is hot and moyst 2. Secondly his Adoloscency or youth to the Summer because it is hot and dry 3. Thirdly his virility or manhood to Autumne cold and moyst 4. Fourthly his old Age to Winter being cold and dry CHAP. III. How to chuse out a place fitting for the erecting of a convenient habitation for the Pleasure Rest and solace of Man and the exercise of this his admirable composition and Facultie FIrst single out a convenient place or soyle where you meane to erect your Edifice or building not farre distant from some running River Fountaine or other water and bordering neare some Thicket or Grove or shadowed with Elmes or other Trees for they are a very delectable object to the Eye for they many times besides breake the heat of the Sunne and the rage of the winds and are convenient both for shelter and sight And likewise as in these so you must be regardfull that the ayre wherein your scituation should be be not corrupt and damped by the Exhalation of Fogges and other vapours suckt up by the Sunne from Fennes and Marishes and other low and rotten grounds there neare-unto neighbouring For the ayre is a great preserver or drawer-on of health or sicknesse and hath a powerfull hand in the state of every mans bodie and is the originall cause of many dangerous diseases and much continued health And for the Foundation thereof it is necessary and convenient that it be placed upon a dry and sandy ground of some fit height and elevation with the windowes towards the Sunne-rising except the prospect otherwise perswade you All these things being thus considered and effected compasse in a plot of ground convenient for a Garden which stored with variety of sweet hearbs and flowers yeelds much content and profit both for the pleasure and health of man To the which not impertinent wrote that Doctor who thus versified his Direction Aer fit mundus habitabili●… ●…c luminosus Infectus neque sit nec olens Foetore cloa●… Which is thus Englished A Builder that will follow wise direction Must first foresee before his house he make That the ayre be cleare and free from all infection And not annoy'd with stench of ditch or Lake And as for the scituation to the former directions I adde that a care be had that the wayes be good and faire and that there bee convenient woods waters and such like not being ore-topt with too high hils to hinder prospect or to pen in too much heat or cold causing thereby too sudden changes after this for the building I thus advise briefly Let it be rather usefull then sumptuous like inchanted Castles built in the ayre out of which Knights errant were wont to rescue captiu'd Ladies thus furnished with a convenient seat and building then let the studious of health be observant what meats and drinkes are most nutritiue and what time most convenient to be taken as they hereafter follow CHAP. IIII Of the houres of Eating and of the times appointed for that service of which one saith Horacibiest qvando stomachus desided rat escam THat there are dietary times and houres appointed for mans Repast and Refection as decency and order requires is not unknowne unto any yet we though allowing they may be observed at all times for civility and fashion conclude wee may not sometimes partake of them without satiety and danger For concerning our times of eating Rasis saith it is then most convenient to eat not at the times appointed unlesse it so happen that the substance and weight of our meats before taken are decocted and descended to the inferiour parts of the Belly and those parts are become light and easie in themselves in the which no extention or crudity remaineth convenient exercise having proceeded thereupon For indeed to prescribe against the strictnesse of rule whensoever the appetite best serves then it is thought most wholesome and convenient to eat For as saith Rasis wee must be wary wee dull not the edge thereof by over-long fasting and breaking of houres unlesse it prove false unto us as it doth most usuall with Drunkards and such like unordered and ill Dieted persons but after that a man of good observation and Dyet shall desire to eat and the nourishment taken before was neither grosse nor much and which hee finds now well digested let him then Dyet himselfe an●…w without delay for if he deferre so long that hee lose his appetite and stomacke which before served him well then is hee either to take the sirrup of violets vineger or warme water and then to keepe fasting till by vomit his appetite be renewed againe And furthermore it is to be observed that every man take those meats that stand best with the state and disposition of his Body and doe eat as often as before hee hath beene most accustomed unto for use and custome being once associates of long familiarity doe so incorporate and colleague withus that they become part of our selves unlesse hee haue growne upon an ill ordered custome which is altogether to be taken heed of and avoyded though not suddenly as at once yet by little and little For Consuetudo est altera natura Custome is another Nature and will not easily forsake us hastily And for our times of repast they should bee so ordered that at least we should eat once in one day and at most not above twice or that which is more

reported that the wine of great Tyria hath this effect that it will heat cold bodies and coole hot bodies moysten dry and dry up moyst and oftentimes so that the thirst is hereby more suppressed then by any other thing Rasis saith that wine generally inflameth the Liver and heateth the stomacke yet prepareth a passage to our better digestions increasing blood fattening the body and augmenting naturall heat and helping nature in her owne proper acts strengthening digestion expelling super●…uity of humours with case and facility Health and strength being encreased thereby and old Age retarded and kept backe and last of all comforting the heart and chearing the countenance But if it be taken super●…uously it hurteth the braine dryeth the sinewes sometimes causing Cramps Appoplexies and sudden death to ensue And further thus one writes thereof 'T is Wine a drooping fainting hart doth cherish And wisedome doth prescrib't to those that perish It heats the blood and elevates the braine But yet to much thereof wee must refraine The wise mans cuppes not many ought to be For Bacchus saith I fill to them but three What more they take and doe not order keepe Fighting some madnes it procures or sleepe CHAP. VIII Of Meath and the properties thereof DRinke made of Hony according to Rasis is exceeding hot and caus●…th a rednesse in the face and is very hurtfull to those of hot complexions but for those of phlegmatike more convenient And therefore the Commenter upon Avicens Canticles saith that this Honey-water is better then wine to those of cold bodies and weake sinewes CHAP. IX Of strong Ale ALe as saith Rasis especially made of Barley weakens the Nerues and sinewes causeth dulnesse and head-ache yet prouoketh Vrine and represseth the heat of Drunkennesse That which is made of Wheat mixed with Parsley and other hearbs is adjudged best of all men as that which is onely puft up with forcible ingredients to shew a strength in weaknesse wherein no vertue or goodnesse remaineth else is accounted worst Of which one writeth Ate for antiquity may plead and stand Before the Conquest conquering in this land Beare that is younger brother ●…o her age Was then not borne nor ripe to bee her page In every pedling Village Borough Towne Ale plaid at foot-ball and tript all lads downe And though shee 's rivall'd now by Beere her mate Most Doctors wait on her that shewes her state CHAP. X. Hereafter followeth a discourse of the natures of all kindes of flesh FLesh as saith Isacke is of great nourishment fatt●…ning the body and making it strong and lusty and those that use it continually and in ample manner are so replenished therewith that they find a fulnesse of blood and strength in nature and need often Phlebotomy and especially the more if they adde wine thereunto Commonly all Flesh much heats and therefore is not held convenient for those that have agues or fulnesse of blood or any other diseases that are nourished thereby That flesh that is red without fatnesse is of greater nourishment than that which is fat and engenders lesse superfluities and more strengthens the stomacke We divide all manner of Flesh into these two kinds grosse and fine those which are grosse are convenient for men of labour and exercise those which are more subtile and easie to those of contrary dispositions yet not utterly abandoning the former lest thereby they abandon their strength to which effect one writeth merrily and may bee thought on seriously as followeth Two men being once put to their choyce of meat The one would grosse the other finer eat The one chose Beefe and Mutton for his share The other Partridge Plover Pidgeon Stare These and no other might they feed or take For certaine yeares and for experience sake The time expir'd they both were brought to view To see of these th' effects that would ensue The first thus Dieted with homely fare Was fat and frolicke th' other leane and bare And hee cry'd Beefe still looking huge and big Th' other weak bare exclaim'd on Pig And his wing'd dainties whose sweet meat were sowre To him eatvp ofthose he did devour CHAP. XI Of wild flesh EVery living creature generally according to Isacke in his tstird booke of Dyets is either wilde or tame the flesh of all wilde Beasts is for the most part more dry and of harder digestion then of the tame and yeelds a worse nourishment to the body by reason of their much motion labour and heat of the ayre and Sunne wherein they live without shelter or shade by which they are so parched and dryed up that they are scarce manducable at least little nourishing excepting onely the wilde Goat whose naturall coldnesse and humidity by heat and labour is both allayed and tempered as also through their much motion and agitation the sauour and ranknesse of their flesh is taken away and so becoms a fit helpe to digestion The flesh of all beasts that are tame are aeqnivalent with this one of the wilde and of greater nourishment then any other by reason of their shadowed and temperate ayres yet something grosse and hard of digestion they are but the Male more light and easie then the Femole being of more calidity and moystnesse and therefore more laudable But the gelded hold the meane betwixt both CHAP. XII Of Kiddes Flesh. KIddes flesh according to ●…sacke is very temperate hauing in it no admixture of evill no separation of good yet though it beget so temperate a blood it is seldome without some appertinent cause prescribed to men of labour or grosse constitutions which prosper better upon stronger substances but men of easier exercises and deuotions a meat better than this is not to be found being not so weake but that it may well nourish the body nor so strong as to fill it with repletion and grosse humours but yeelding a well mixt blood and substance betwixt grosse and subtile betwixt hot and cold And hee further saith that those that are milch are better then the other both in nourishment savour and digestion and breed better blood for the milke betters the naturall humidity CHHP. XIII Of Lambes flesh LAmbes flesh according to Isacke is not good although sucking by reason of the abundance of humour slyminesle and Phlegme that it engenders wherby being taken it slippes out of the stomacke before it bee digested Averrois is of opinion it receives some better temper from the earth CHAP. XIIII Of Rammes-flesh RAmmes-flesh according to Rasis is more grosser then Kidde and doth more increase strength and humors and in some degrees equals the Kidde the younger are the best for food but the old for the flocke the flesh of either being well digested yeelds much and good blood but especially the Weather or gelded because the heat and moysture thereby is tempered whereby they yeeld a good savour and tast yet Galen exceedingly disables the Flesh of Rammes in every degree and commends the flesh of Calves CHAP. XV. Of

Calves flesh and Oxe flesh vulgo Beefe and Veale CAlves-flesh according to Averrois is exceeding good and commendable not having in it that Skinny coldnesse that Oxe flesh hath and for the excellent taste and rellish it hath come second to none aequivalent herein with the Kidde whom hitherto we have preferred before others yet failing in other his vertues engendring not so good humors Bullockes-flesh according to Isacke engendreth a grosle thick and melancholy blood giving much nourishment to the body yrt is hard of digestion and slowly departeth the stomacke dispearsing itselfe into all the members and exceedingly stuffing the belly so that if melancholike persons shall much feede thereon it will procure unto them the rising of the Spleene Quartane Agues Leprosies Cancers and many other diseases according to the complexion which whosoever experienceth shall finde most generally true CHAP. XVI Of the divers kinds of Hogges-flesh HOgges-flesh according to Avicen is more naturall to the constitution of Man then many other creatures being more cold and moist especially the tame and home-bred but the wilde are contrary being hot and dry and of lesse nourishment The best are not to be taken often but sometimes and the best parts thereof are those least accounted of as the feet eares and cheekes these being exceeding nourishable and yeelding a good digestion easing and making soluble the belly by reason of the much moisture and humidity they have yet provoking not vrine as some hold the contrary to those of weake Dyets not so commendable the yong are the best best nourish and ingender best bloud CHAP. XVII Of Harts-flesh and Hares-flesh HArts-flesh is melancholy and hard of digestion the yong are best the middle age not so good the old worst of all but the gelded-yong have a degree of goodnesse above the rest because their heat and drinesse is best tempered Yet Avicen saith notwithstanding their grosenesse they are swift of desention and engender quartane Fevers The utmost of the taile is poison The Hare especially saith Isacke engenders melancholly blood because the creature it selfe and the flesh thereof are exceedingly melancholly Yet Isacke saith The Flesh thereof becommeth something more tender being hunted and killed in chase Therefore saith one The Hare 's a creature more delighted in For sport and pleasure then for flesh or skin CHAP. XVIII Of the Members of Beasts THe Head is grosse and much nourishing heats the body and therefore is not to be eaten but in cold seasons out of which unfit application is the Collicke often ingendred Whereas taken in fit seasons it much comforteth the blood and augmenteth spern But the braine therein being cold Breeds a loathing and hurts the stomacke and is when to be eaten first of other meates yet with regard being good for those of hot complexions as enemy to the contrary those afflicted with any cold diseases In some it strengthens nature and mollifies the stomacke in others not depending much upon the constitution The Vdder is cold and grosse and although it nourish much yet is it slowly digested The Liver is hot and moist and hard of digestion and slowly hath egression yet I sacke saith it ingenders good blood but the Livers of those that give sucke are best yet the Liver of a Hen is better then any other The Heart is of a hard substance slow of digesticn but being well digested nourisheth much The Lungs are easie of digestion and quickly passe the stomake for the lightnesse and rarenesse of the substance Tho Raines are illaudable in two things One for the grossenesse and hardnesse of the substance the other because it receives the nourishment from the fatnesse of the urine whereby they engender grosie and thicke blood Rasis saith that red flesh without fatnesse engendreth a thicke blood with few superfluities but the fat nourisheth more yet engenders a moyst blood sikewise with more superfluity of humors but of more nourishment But that which is betwixt both engenders a temperate blood and is best The Feet engenders a slymie blood yet the former are more light and hot the hinder more heavy and cold CHAP. XIX Of flesh in peeces FLesh boyled in peeces as saith Rasis is the worse therefore and nourisheth little in respect of that which hath the true use which is boyled whole yet it is good for those that abound with raw humors drying them vp and being very assistfull that way Flesh that is baked is grosse and yeelds much nourishment yet is hardly digested unlesse it finde a strong hot stomacke it bindeth the belly most properly especially when no fat or oylie thing is eaten with it Flesh boyled with pepper and egges is ever hot and therefore best manducable in cold seasons being a meat which strengthens the body and nourisheth more than any other meat Besides it encreaseth sperme and blood making the body strong beautifull and able and inciting to lust yet in some it breeds a loathing heats and ingenders the stone CHAP. XX. Of all kinds of Wild-Fowle VVIlde-fowle as saith Isacke are generally mote light and subtile then others All Fowle doe little nourish or strengthen the body yet the wild more than the tame having both a tenderer skinne and easier substance the cause of their rerenesse is procured by their much motion and drynesse of the ayre The tame likewise in some persons ingenders good blood and are more temperate in one degree then the other by reason of their moderation of labour and humidity Of all other Birds the Stare is the most subtile the young Partridges Chickens the Pheasant and the Henne and the young more light then the other breeding a better blood and more strengthening the appetite the male being best by reason of the temperate fatnesse But the best of all tame Fowle is Hens flesh being an excellent preservative against the Leprosie And it is said that the braine of the Hen augments the substance of the matter of the Braine and sharpens the wit which in this manner wee finde further commended The Hen of all Fowles is accounted best In two things farre excelling all the rest For first to them that want or brain or wit The Hennes braine doth augment both that and it And in her body shee the Egge doth breed The Yolke whereof turnes to much Blood and Seed CHAP. XXI Of the Henne THe Henne according to Isack is lesse humid then her Chicken and therefore hardly to bee compared to the Chicken for temperatenesse in digestion yet being well digested yeelds better nourishment Rasis saith that the Stares flesh of all other is best The Quailes flesh next unto that adiudged not over-hot in digestion because it engenders little of superfluous humours After these the flesh of young Partridges yet something grosser are they they are stringent yet of much nourishment CHAP. XXII Of young Pigeons YOung are of a vehement heat inflames the blood and ingender

and dry in the end of the second digestion doe both extenuate and strengthen the stomacke and dissolve all slymie and grosse humours Likewise cleares the brest and the Lungs from Phlegme and opens the opilations of the Lyver and splene Nuts according to Rasis doe turne all chollericke thicke humours that they find in the stomacke into choller it selfe and doe cause an aching and giddinesse in the head but that this hurtfull and ill nature may be taken from them saith one they ought to be layd a whole night in warme wat●…r and so to be cleansed and moistened Dioscorides saith two Nuts with two dry Figges and twenty Rue leaves with a graine of salt being all beaten together and eaten fasting make a speciall preservative against all poyson Filbers according to Rasis are lesse hot than small-nuts but more heavy and they are vertuous in Medicine against the prickings of Scorpions Serapion saith that Filberds being roasted and eaten with a little Pepper doe exsiccate and dry up Rhumes Chesnuts according to Constantine are windy and provoke lust ye●…lding much nourishment yet are hard of digestion but being roasted saith he become more easie and behoveful both in goodnesse and taste The Wall-nut saith Isacke is unobedient to Digestion and much hinders egestion though it procure Vrine and the cating thereof saith he are commonly more for pleasure than profit since they little nourish the body but much offend it CHHP. XXXI Of sundry kinds of Spices PEpper according to Isacke as aforesaid well digesteth our meat allaying the windinesse therein yet being a spice very hot much heats the stomacke and the Lyver hurting those exceedingly that have hot bodies especially much used in the summer Ginger is hot and moyst and a Digester of meat likewise and is good for those of cold Lyvers and stomacks as otherwise much beneficiall to the body besides helping the Rhumes in the Eyes likewise drying up al superfluous moistures in the Head the decayers both of memory and wit Setwell according to Avicen is the Triacle and Quintestence of all poyson yet saith Constantine being well compounded it dissolves all windinesse in the body and strengthens the stomacke provokes an appetite takes away the stinch of Garlicke being put into the mouth And Macrobius saith it allayes the heat and inflamation of winds Galingale according to Rasis resolves windinesse breedeth a good smell in the mouth pleaseth the stomacke and is a Digester of meats And Auicen saith further it asswageth the chollicke passion provokes lust and mitigates the paine in the reines Cloves according to Avicen are hot and dry in the third degree and well relish the body sharpens the sight helps the paine in the stomacke and Lyver Cynamon according to Rasis is hot and dry and strengthens the stomacke and the Lyver helpeth digestion expels windinesse openeth opilations provokes the Menstrues and urine Saffron according to Isacke is hot and dry in the first degree strengthens the stomacke and Lyver and is good against the shortnesse of the wind and likewise for women làbouring with child Rasis speaking of himselfe saith There was a woman in travell long and could not be delivered and I gave unto her 3. 1 of saffron and she was presently delivered and likewise of others have I often tryed it and found it unfallible And further in the commendations thereof saith he it being put into a cup of wine and drunken therein much exhillerateth the heat and cheareth the countenance Pliny in his second booke saith that he that first drinkes Saffron in the morning may drinke all day after with what company soever and never be offended therewith Carawayes according to Constantine are hot and dry in the third degree and dissolve windinesse strengthen the stomack and kill wormes in the belly further digestion and provoke urine CHAP. XXXII Of Sawces as Mustard Salt Vinegar Honey and Oyle MVstard is hot and dry in the middle of the fourth degree and thereby dryes up the moysture of the head and the stomacke And some say that being drunke in the Morning fasting it cleares the humours of the head and much helpeth the understanding Pliny saith in his second booke being taken in Vinegar it breaketh the stone Salt according to Rasis is hot and dry abstracting all hurtfull and moyst humours from our meats relisheth the tast thereof and sharpens the Appetite but being over-much taken dryes the body and hardens the bloo●… weakens the sight and dlminisheth Sperme and breedeth the itch Vinegar is cold and dry and macerates the body diminisheth strength strengthens the blacke choller and dryes up sperme but weakens the red choller blood makes subtile and piercing the meats wherewith it is mingled Honey as saith Isacke in his second booke is hot and dry in the second degree and through the pores of the body emptieth all ill humour caused through any ind●…gestion or Distemperature thereof and much cleanseth the veines and therefore is good for those that are cold and moyst by nature and especially for old men but ill for those of hot bodies and complexions because thereby it is changed into chollericke humors especially by the heat of the blood And further Avicen writes thereof that being raw it ingenders windinesse in the stomacke and a bitternesse in the brest and a sharpnesse at the Heart procuring also vomits and egestions The Oyle of Olives saith Plynie in his fourth booke describing the nature thereof is to soften the belly cleare the Face expell poyson from the Heart allay windinesse helpe the Eye-sight asswage the paine of the head and all burning Fevers The Oyle of Nuts saith Rasis is very hot and binding and according to Avicen helps the shingles S. Anthonies fire and the Fistula in the corners of the eyes The Oyle of Almonds according to Rasis is very temperate and easeth the brest and the Lungs of many infirmities as also the Bladder and the Reines yet breeds a loathing in the stomacke and slowly descendeth According to Dioscorides it taketh away the spots in the Face and healeth and closeth up all skarres and grounds of wounds that usually remaine after the cure helps the dimnesse of the Eyes and takes away the scurfe from the Head The Oyle of Poppey is adjudged to the nature of Poppey it selfe Thus having discoursed of the nature and qualities of the most principall meats and drinkes usuall amongst us we come now to set downe as a necessary addition to the first booke a short direction and rule for preservation and continuance of Health Regimen Sanitatis A Man 's owne observation upon his owne body experimentally what he findes good or evill is the best Physicke to pr●…serve health but it is a safer conclusion to say This agreeth not well with mee therefore I will leave it off then that I finde no offence in this therefore I may continue it for

bodies end would determine that but after the soule once lives it never dyes it dwels in the body and governes it as the Pylot in the Ship directing it from haven to haven the Soule is all this while imprisoned in the body and yet to it some bodies are pallaces to others streightned prisons according as one writes one She who 's saire body no such prison was But that a Soule might well bee be pleas'd to passe An age in her And so further speaking of the freedome of the Soule in death saith then Think that a rusty peece dischargd is flowne In sunder and the bullet is his owne Q. Wherefore is the Soule of man called the Lanthorne of God A. For the Light that is infused into it by God in whom all the Divine faculties dwell and therefore for the most part is put for the whole man for mens cuiusque es est quisque Of secret writings The Ephesians Act. 19. 19. had certaine writing and magicall notes which they used in every place and alwayes came away victors It was the Ephesians that used curious and unlawfull Arts which when Saint Paul heard of them and to that end wrote bitterly against them they gathered their bookes together and in open view burned them which in estimation were worth fifty thousand peeces of silver Suetonius reports in the lives of the twelve Coesars Eoistles of his to be so obscure and secret that they could not bee read but by former Intelligence for one letter went in the roome of another as D for A and so of the rest Q. What is the most faithfull messenger and yet carries with it both reoson and speech A. An Epistle or Letter of which one writes Discere fit charum quamvis primo sit amarum But it Letters of secrecie shall be intercepted then to prevent that Pliny writes of an herbe called Goats Lettuice which with the milke thereof writing on any ground-worke or paper and dust strewed afterward on and dryed may be perfectly read Likewise to write with new milke is a safe way and deceives the eyes putting but a little cole-dust upon it and then what could not be seene before is apparantly read Likewise to write with the juyce of an Onion being wet may be perfectly read and not before discerned and this was practised by one of the gunpowder-Traytors out of the Tower in a letter written to Garnet the letter was common for the body of it that was ordinary complement but the margents contained the mysterie so discouer ed and found out Q. What is that the more feet it hath the slower it goes the fewer the more upright and swist it walkes about the world and hath twice ten hornes A. A man not yet come to his Staffe Q. Whether is it better to bee sprung from good parents or to bee good in enes selfe A. To bee good and not to live by anothers blood or fame according to the Poet Miserum est aliena incumbere fama To live by others breath I hold a sickly state And if I were to chuse a wife I such a choyce would hate As had not many living goods for me to tast and see But onely such as now are dead in th' ancient pedigree Q. What doe we most love and best esteeme A. Those things we hardest atchieue according to the Poet Quod venit exfacili faciles segnesque tenemur Quod spes quodque metu torsit habare juvat Englished But light wee reckon that wee slightly gaine Valuing the subject as it costs us paine Q. What small garment is that which is made of cheape wooll and yet of most incomparable price A. The Episcopall Robe which was used to be given gratis from the Antients and of it selfe is of small value yet now with the inchanted Roses the Agnus Deies the Apostolicall breves the exorcises swords and woodden crosses it costs many thousands before it sits on the Popes backe The Pope saith that for Layickes to read the Scriptures in a knowne tongue is to set pearles before Swine Q. What was the most monstrous Embassage that hath beene heard of A. An Embassage came to Rome by three Embassadours the one whereof was troubled with the Gout the other with wounds in his head and the third with tremor in the heart which Cato observing said to the Senate laughing Here is an Embassage come without head or heart or feet Q. Why hath God given us two of all members of the body A. That if by any accident the one faile it may bee supplyed by the others helpe and therefore wee haue two hands two legges two feet two eares two eyes but but one Soule to shew the incomparable value thereof that it is more worth then all the world for what shall a man giue for the ransome thereof Q. Whether is the lighter plague that of the Sword or of the tongue A. That of the Sword for that onely wounds the body but this the soule the tongue is many times accessory to murder stirres that fire that nought but blood can quench Saint Bernard saith the detractors tongue is a threefold lance that at one blow wounds three the speaker hearer and him that is detracted further hee saith the Detractor hath the Divell in his tongue the hearer in his eare the consenter in his heart it is sayd betweene the heart and the tongue there should bee a marriage for it is Uerbum in c●…rde before it bee Uerbum in ore and those words that are spoken by the tongue without the consent of the heart are said to be conceived in Adultery Q. Whether is our Country or our parents to be more honoured A. It is the answer of a Wiseman that our Countrey that our Countrey was before our parents and therefore first to be honoured Q. May it be one Ship should compasse the whole world A. That with wonder have our eies beheld in our noble Countryman Drake and so hath the sound of the Gospell gone over the whole world so that now we beleeve the end of the world not to be farre off ●…he number of 40 is a time re●…keable in holy Scriptures for penitency and affliction for 40 dayes Christ fasted for our sinnes 40 yeares wandred the people in the wildernesse 40 dayes had the Ninivites to repent 40 dayes continued the waters of the flood c. Q. Doth money make a rich man A. It doth not but the contrary for that is never too little that is enough and there is never enough where there is not content though too much for our happinesse or infelicity is of our owne making Q. When doe enemies profit us and friends hurt us A. That is done so when as an enemy justly reprehends us it profits but when a friend falsly praiseth us it hurts us Q. Of what Nations consisted the foure Empires Assirij primiregnarunt postea P●… Post Persas Graeci Germani 〈◊〉 dominantur Englished The Assirian first the Persian then began The Graecian next the